Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported the legionaries' Paris conduct as "150% better than the U. S. Conventions." Not more than five cases of drunkenness were in court at any one moment. Cafe and taxicab arguments resulted in no serious assaults. The Red Cross treated only 1,400 cases during the week, mostly sore feet, fatigue, colds, temporary alcoholism...
Eyewitnesses related that the machine began falling from a great height and that at a height of about 70 feet a wing fell off and the great machine hurtled, dead weight, to the ground, half burying itself. The corpses were mangled almost beyond recognition. All, save Seiler, were instantly killed, the mechanic merely showing bare signs of life and passing away without regaining consciousness. The accident was ascribed to an airpocket dashing the ma-chine to the ground, a hardly feasible premise; another guess was that the pilot had died suddenly of heart disease. A rumor of political assassination...
...novelist had started a Republican newspaper at Valencia; how it had proved a failure; how, to save himself from bankruptcy, he had turned the newspaper over to his employes without informing them of the true state of affairs; how, after the enterprise had been put on its feet, Blasco Ibañez had disavowed his gift, reclaimed ownership...
...TIME, Oct. 1, 1923), he traveled to the U. S. to plead the cause of his mutilated country. Standing erect, well over six feet tall, gaunt & sinewy, his grizzled beard almost covering his necktie, he is a commanding figure. And speaking a dozen languages fluently?English almost perfectly?with a rare gift for oratory and inescapable charm, he has made himself a world-wide figure, known intimately, and usually beloved, by the statesmen of at least two continents. It is doubtful if the word of any living Hungarian carries as much moral weight as that of Count Apponyi...
...James Boswell, who bequeathed to the world two important things: one, The Life of Samuel Johnson, a monument to the curiosity of the author and the conversation of the subject, admittedly the best biography in the world; the other a chest made of ebony, which was almost six feet long and stood five feet high on slim legs. Letters Boswell had received, letters he had written, notes and diaries and An Account of Corsica filled the chest...